Advancing more and more into the shadow of this mournful place, its dark depressing influence stole upon their spirits, and filled them with a dismal gloom.

Charles Dickens -- The Old Curiosity Shop

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My dismal scene I needs must act alone.

Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way by yourself in the night, you try it once—you’ll see.

Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

At this dismal time we were evidently all possessed by the idea that we were followed.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

Everything was dismally still.

Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

This dismal shade must separate me from the world:

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister’s Black Veil

shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise,

Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

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The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out.

Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

It was the first I ever see it growing, and it made the woods look solemn and dismal.